Monday 4th January 2016
	Rarity sightings comprised Mourning Dove (Shetland), Glaucous-winged Gull and Spotted Sandpiper (Co Cork), Pacific Diver, Ross's Gull, Lesser Scaup and Hudsonian Whimbrel (Cornwall), Gyr (Western Isles), Bonaparte's Gull (Hertfordshire), Dusky Warbler (Somerset), Penduline Tits and Ferruginous Duck (Hampshire), Long-billed Dowitcher (Northumberland) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Norfolk). The best of the rest included Serin (Cambridgeshire), Pallas's Warbler (Wirral), Hoopoe (West Midlands/ Staffordshire), Rose-coloured Starling (Cornwall), two American Wigeons, two Surf Scoters, three Cattle Egrets, at least three Richard's Pipits, four Yellow-browed Warblers, five Ring-necked Ducks, 13 Waxwings and at least 19 Glossy Ibises. An excellent movement of Little Auks off the east coast of Scotland included peak counts of 1,100 in Lothian, 1,030 in Fife, and 1,016 in Aberdeenshire.
-  Stuart Piner, RBA